Ben Houston • 5 Minutes Read • March 24, 2025
Learn how to develop 3D web applications that work reliably across all devices using real-world browser capability data from Web3DSurvey.com with a practical two-tier development strategy.
Ben Houston • 7 Minutes Read • December 5, 2024
Sometimes big opportunities come from solving what seem like minor problems. In 2002, fresh out of university, I accidentally co-created what would become one of the most widely-used tools in Hollywood visual effects - all because I needed a better way to run fluid simulations.
Tags: visual-effects, frantic-films, entrepreneurship, computer-graphics, software-development
Ben Houston • 6 Minutes Read • December 4, 2024
How a pioneering web-based 3D editor pivoted from trying to revolutionizing visual effects to finding unexpected success in enterprise product visualization.
Tags: clara.io, enterpreneurship, computer-graphics, software-development
Ben Houston • 3 Minutes Read • September 1, 2024
Web3DSurvey is a tool for 3D web developers that tracks and aggregates WebGL, WebGL2, and WebGPU capabilities providing valuable insights into real-world support for these features.
Ben Houston • 4 Minutes Read • May 30, 2023
Graph-based materials, while innovative and flexible, pose significant costs for run-time dynamic loading in Web and Games. We delve into these costs and propose alternative solutions.
Tags: computer-graphics, standards, pbr, gltf
Ben Houston • 4 Minutes Read • October 25, 2022
Understand the background and potential future of the evolving Khronos glTF PBR material definition.
Tags: computer-graphics, gltf, standards, pbr
Ben Houston • 2 Minutes Read • May 6, 2015
With Physically-based Rendering (PBR) becoming the new standard, we need a simple standard interchange format.
Tags: computer-graphics, obj, standards, pbr